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I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wi...
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the in...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought f...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sande...
WILLIAM MORRIS

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, th...
WILLIAM MORRIS

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and p...
WILLIAM MORRIS

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys wh...
WILLIAM MORRIS

March: Its tree, Juniper.
WILLIAM MORRIS

March: Its stone, Bloodstone.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
WILLIAM MORRIS

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Swerve to the left, son Roger, he said, / When you catch his eyes through the helmet-slit, / Swerve ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because th...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,A tale of folly and of wasted life,Hope against hope, the bitt...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
WILLIAM MORRIS

When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cr...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I have the utmost respect for them. It was formed at the time of great violence and danger, particul...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The idle singer of an empty day.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Skip dominates most conversations in a negotiation and nobody questions the veracity of what he's sa...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Speak but one word to me over the corn, / Over the tender, bowed locks of the corn.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sande...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by!No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky...
WILLIAM MORRIS

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be...
WILLIAM MORRIS

the attitude of the judiciary to (young hackers) must change; it must be 'that guy can cause havoc t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I was pretty worried about him for a while.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

[I]t is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for al...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
WILLIAM MORRIS

By God! I will not tell you more to-day,Judge any way you will -- what matters it?
WILLIAM MORRIS

Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry,And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth,While we the liv...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Had she come all the way for this, / To part at last without a kiss?
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be...
WILLIAM MORRIS

There was a knight came riding by / In early spring, when the roads were dry; / And he heard that la...
WILLIAM MORRIS

October

O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze,
Down these grey slopes, upon th...
WILLIAM MORRIS

This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Protect, detect, react and deter. For example, firewalls are only of any real use if you master them...
WILLIAM MORRIS

One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same id...
WILLIAM MORRIS

He did not die in the night, / He did not die in the day, / But in the morning twilight / His spirit...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful
WILLIAM MORRIS

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, an...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I know a little garden close / Set thick with lily and red rose, / Where I would wander if I might /...
WILLIAM MORRIS

the false reports are, of course, calculated to do the agency severe harm.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Cricket, following the Ashes success, has proven to be one of the major drivers of inbound tourism i...
WILLIAM MORRIS

We thank the council for being willing to allocate funds necessary to build a first-rate skate park.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, / And the woods have no voice but the voice of complai...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

There were four of us about that bed; / The mass-priest knelt at the side, / I and his mother stood ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Now, with the Internet, there are multiple vendors and no protection standards.
WILLIAM MORRIS

[While Wood, who is 24, might be a much younger actor, he has nonetheless been making movies for 15 ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The largest thing that these young black men and women stood for was to tell young black people that...
WILLIAM MORRIS

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUGHES

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon th...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so muc...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are t...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist,...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me wha...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone c...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly c...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single str...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
MORRIS WEST It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.
MAREN MORRIS There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, a...
DICK MORRIS Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be...
DAVE MORRIS Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not ...
MAREN MORRIS I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned ...
MAREN MORRIS I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Co...
MORRIS CHESTNUT I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
GARRETT MORRIS

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS

No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, eit...
WESLEY MORRIS Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones'...
DAVE MORRIS

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ou...
DESMOND MORRIS I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has...
MAREN MORRIS We need the water fixed. We need to take a shower.
ADAM MORRIS I had good blocks, ... My fullback turned his guy inside and I cut it up on the hash marks. The free...
ADAM MORRIS This feels good - my first game at tailback and I get athlete of the week, ... I couldn't do it with...
ADAM MORRIS Coach always tells us everybody wants to take the top dog down. I'm kind of surprised we're undefeat...
ADAM MORRIS I missed the entire tournament season. It was very painful sitting there watching the games when I k...
ADAM MORRIS It was good to play St. Joseph because down there in Corpus Christi and in the playoffs, they allow ...
ADAM MORRIS They lost 27 fire trucks in the hurricane and seven fire stations were completely destroyed.
ADAM MORRIS I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,
ADAM MORRIS It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w...
MAREN MORRIS 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr...
DAVE MORRIS Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo...
LEWIS MORRIS

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS

The unlived life is not worth examining.
TOM MORRIS Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answ...
MORRIS MANDEL You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
LOUIE MORRIS

No agency is better than its account executives.
MORRIS HITE

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a beli...
MORRIS HITE

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we...
DESMOND MORRIS

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
MORRIS FISHBEIN

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
MORRIS BENDER

The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.
MORRIS BERGMAN You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
LOUIE MORRIS

Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!
CHARLES MORRIS

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
DESMOND MORRIS

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
MORRIS FISHBEIN There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty I...
CHRIS MORRIS The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support t...
DICK MORRIS 'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the posi...
DICK MORRIS

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You ...
WESLEY MORRIS

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don&#...
MORRIS HITE

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency ...
MORRIS HITE No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in...
DICK MORRIS

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or n...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the ...
MORRIS WEST

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face...
MORRIS DEES Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say...
MARK MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.

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